Hate to pull of the real topic here, but I had to
Hog428 wroye: they will hunt all day and hang with any hound

You have never ran them with July or Running Walker hounds then my friend. There ain't a bulldog alive on this planet that can run AS LONG or AS FAST as a one of them in the jungle,Tropic Islands, mountains, desert, artic slope on the moon or any where else.You have mentioned 16 years of breeding, most running hounds have been breed to run and not stop no matter the cost by great men before this country was even formed. I have seen coyotes run 8 hours from a pack of running hounds full speed and a bull dog of any type would have had a lung collaspe by then.I have seen july hounds run there pads off there feet in the lime stone fields around here and have to be caught and carried back to the truck or they would have bleed to death before quitting. Your dogs may have some lung but you will have to breed more bull dog out of them than they posses to honestly say they can hang with ANY HOUND. The hound is often tore down and over looked in internet circles where any one can be a dog expert but the truth is a tougher, bigger hearted, harder headed, full of bottom, stick with the game no matter where it goes or how long it runs dog has yet to be bred in this world in my opnion than a Good hound and I doubt there ever will be in the future either.